U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Vote

[Obie]

Aloha Pog !

The similarities between Ken and Kalakoa are out there !

[dmbwest]

Feeling antagonistic tonight ? One slide sees an apple, the other reveals an orange.

Turn it around if you cannot understand the difference.

Edit to add ... Above not to you Obie !

[beejee]

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Originally posted by Obie

Aloha Pog !

The similarities between Ken and Kalakoa are out there !

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Another judgmental derogatory post that offers nothing to the topic but antagonism.

[dmbwest]

Me thinks you are lucky to blinder most of Kalakoa/Kens posts that are rampant here ...

[Guest]

Remember. Racism is bad, except when it isn't. Glad I could help clear this up.


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You can't fix Samsara.

[kalakoa]

If you live on Oahu,travel to Oahu, or buy something that is produced on Oahu

Or goods which have merely travelled through Oahu and been taxed there -- it's an "excise tax", not a "sales tax". As State performs all GET apportionment, we have only their word that these funds are distributed appropriately.

Oahu's rail is also burning through Federal transportation grants that might better be spent elsewhere.

There is also discussion of powering Oahu's rail with "green" geothermal by way of an inter-island power grid. Which we will all be paying for.

a constant reminder of the dysfunctional government/programs we have in Hawaii

Correct: not "anti-government", mostly "anti-stupid", especially when it's my money (taxes) being spent.

Now for something a little closer to the topic at hand:

http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/news/stat...home-lands

First Circuit Judge Jeannette Castagnetti ruled the state violated its constitutional duty to appropriately fund the department, impacting staffing and Native Home Lands Trust beneficiaries, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.

As usual, it's the "little people" that are most impacted:

Plaintiff Kelii Ioane Jr. applied for a homestead lease in 1981 and has been waiting on an agricultural or pastoral lot ever since.

Small wonder the Native Hawaiians are looking to create a sovereign state with government-to-government relations: the existing ("special, Hawaiian-only") systems are failing them. Whether they would re-create this dysfunction on their own is left as an exercise to the reader.

[Chunkster]

DHHL is a trainwreck, and giving them more money will not fix that. Will creating a new sovereign entity fix things? IMO, only if the Hawaiians ditch virtually all of the bureaucracy and the "leadership" which has thrown a tantrum over a telescope instead of demanding reform.

[leilanidude]

Giving DHHL an extra $18.6 million a year? At the cost of $60k per employee (inc benefits) that is an extra 300 people a year plus money for supplies.

How tough is it to grant a lease?
1. Are you Hawaiian? If so, please wait 1 month while attorney gets lease ready
2. Sign lease.

[TomK]

Pog wrote:

"Me thinks you are lucky to blinder most of Kalakoa/Kens posts that are rampant here ..."

If you are thinking of the same "ken" I know, you are terribly wrong. If not, I apologise, but there is no way Kalakoa is Ken. He might be repetitive but not in the same sense as "ken". Kalakoa posts some funny and original stuff on the odd occasion, "ken" posts clumsy gibberish. They are very different

[kimo wires]

Isn't there supposed to be some kind of decision today, Dec 2nd?